GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 34, 30 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ACTRESS' LIBEL ACTION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, Juno 28. Miss Jaine Wood, ft musical hall actress, is suing Sandow for damages for libel in printing a portrait advertisement illustrating Sandow'a corsets. The plaintiff gave evidenco that she was photographed with a view to publication in newspapers a« a celebrity, not ds s corset model. Sandow paid the photographor four guineas lor the copy. She never wore a Sandow corset. | MILITARY MANOEUVRES. London, June 28. The Prince of Wales actively participated in the scouting operations in the inter-university field manoeuvres. Fellow scouts learning that a Tunes correspondent possessed copies of the Cambridge scheme, wished to commandeer the document, hut the Prince refused to avail himself of methods that did not present active service conditions. SEISMIC DISTURBANCE. The Hague, Juno 28. The ehief centre of the earthquake was Benculen, on the west coast of Sumatra. Eleven natives wore killed, and many injured. All the Europeans Sire safe. , BRITISH AN© IRISH TOBACCO. London, June 28. Mr Montague, in reply to a deputation, promised to support an export allowance on British and Irish tobacco to enable it to compete with the foreign grewn article, which is not hampered by excise restrictions. INDIAN AGITATOR RELEASED. Calcutta, June 28. A great demonstration celebrated the release of the agitator Tilak. People sang national song-s and cheered Tilak's garlanded portrait.

HINDUS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, June 28. The Indiana' Bill has been read a third time in the Senate. THE PARIS SUBSIDENCES. Paris, June 28. An inquiry into the subsidences showed that some contractors use soft rubble stone, instead of the standard, to strenghen sewer walls. AN ANARCHIST ESCAPES. London, June 28. Malatesta, a well-known Italian anarchist, who is wanted in connection with the Ancona strike, escaped from Italy in a peasant's disguise and is now taking refuge in London. GOTHLAND REFLOATED. London, June 28. The steamer Gothland, which went ashore near the Bishop Rock, lias boen refloated. STOKERS ON STRIKE. Melbourne, June 2!). As the result of an 'altercation between an intoxisafced sto-ker and an officcir of the steamer Kanowmi, the stokers demanded that 'the officer should too removed li om the ship, Tlik captain refused and twenty-fiyc stokers left the ship. All were wrested. Tli'e steamer has been delayed as the result. FLOODS IN CHINA. Times anil Sydney Sun Services. Peking, June 28. The Pei-Ki.iiij; and Si-Ivian<> districts are flooded. Hundreds of villages yrcra devastated owing to breaks in the rivorbartks. Thousands are homt'l

TIIE FEDERAL PARLIAMENT. Melbourne, Tune 20. The Federal Parliament has been prorogued bof August 5. FRENCH LOAN. Paris. June 28, iLe Matin slates that the French loan of £32,000,000 baa lx-en underwritten fifteen fold. ITALIAN METHODS. Rome, Juno 28. . Parliament vas obstructed by a quantity of the drug asafoetida being poured on the Socialist benches. AN AUSTRALIAN'INVESTMENT.

London, .lime 28. In replying to allegation of unfair treatment of investors in 'tHic .Midland Kailway, Westralia, Sir Newton Mo©re, Agent-General, in a long letter to the Observer, sets out the circiuiifitancps oi the company's . concession, justifyin',' the construction of the Wongan 1-iitU-Mullewa railway parallel to it, an] the taxation of the Midland Companv. The Observer insists that the condition were altered to the detriment of shareholders.